Dear Reader,
In The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life, author and speaker Allison Fallon promotes the idea of writing down our thoughts as an essential way to navigate life.
Research shows that writing for as little as twenty minutes a day for four days in a row can measurably improve your mood … Think about this for just a minute. If writing things down on paper can have this kind of impact on our physical bodies, imagine the impact it could have on our finances, our food allergies, our emotional responses, our romantic partnerships, our careers. If a regular writing practice can have this kind of impact on your cells, what kind of impact do you think it could have on your spirit, your soul, your emotions, your personal life, and the wider world through you? Perhaps the healing and peace and clarity we’ve been craving for so long is closer than we ever dreamed.
And Fallon gently walks readers through any possible resistance to writing.
Do you think you don’t have time to write? Fallon offers ideas for creating space in our environments, calendars, and minds.
Are you having trouble knowing what to write? Fallon says that writing is not a commodity, but a lifeline. Ask questions. Work through a host of answers and ideas. Turn off the inner editor and let yourself be real on the page.
Because, at its best, writing is a safe place to be honest with ourselves.
And to the readers who think that writing is something “other” people do, Fallon suggests that everyone should engage with the blank page—as a reminder that each new day is a fresh start.
Isn’t that a beautiful thought?
Reader, I know you love reading, but do you enjoy writing, too? Let’s talk, as friends, about our reading and our writing!
Here with you,
Laura
